Theme:
Transplant Inspiration

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading,
TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events
that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers
combine to spark deep discussion and connection
in a small group.
These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx,
where x = independently organized TED event.
The TED Conference provides general guidance for
the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events
are self-organized
(subject to certain rules and regulations).

Diane Torr

Diane Torr is a performance artist, who since the 1980s has performed as a male. In her workshops "man for a day" / "woman for a day" Diane resolves gender prejudices and teaches both males and females to see the world as well as themselfes from the opposite genders perspective.

Ibrahim Andrun

Ibrahim was born in Lattakia, Syria. Already in his early childhood he showed a remarkable talent for languages, which he has inherited from his mother, who still works as a French teacher today. He was determined to become a journalist like his big idol Adel Karam. In 2014 Ibrahim graduated from high school, ready to study journalism in Syria, when he decided to leave to Germany.

Jason Grullon

Jason Grullon is co-founder and CEO of VIRTŪ, a start-up company, which is aiming to break with the existing fashion system and bringing fairness and sustainability to the garment industry worldwide.
His career as social entrepreneur started when he was five years old, growing up in the Dominican Rebublic confronted with the inequalities of life.
Moreover Jason Grullon is representative of the Coalition of Youth Organisations in The Council for Economic and Social Affairs ,Co-Founder and member of the Human Development Club and former member of The Youth Advisory Panel of The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). As a lawyer he is Chair of The Week of Law and Business as well as Co-Chair of the international arbitration seminar "Convergence and Divergence of Investment and International Commercial Arbitration.

Kareem Kousa

Kareem was born in Lattakia, Syria as the son of the former national football goalkeeper. He expected a promising life as a professional football player in syria for himself as well. In his youth, he spent his summers in training camps with all the well known syrian football teams. Even Barcelona was planned – if he would not have left his home.

Oded Kafri

Drummer and solo-artist Oded Kafri grew up as an hyperactive child in Israel, Tel Aviv. He started playing drums at the age of 10, practicing in a bomb shelter 8 hours a day. As a teenager, he moved to Paris with his family. After a demoralizing “fête de la musique”, probably France´s most popular street music festival, Kafri decided to take his fortune in his own hands and moved to London. He set up his drumkit on London streets playing solo and became very soon a one-man party and YouTube phenomenon with over a million hits. While he needed to go back to Israel over and over again, usually because of bureaucratical issues, he travelled and lived in England or even in Africa to improve his drumming skills. In 2016, he plans his solo-tour through the USA to realize his dream of “Drum(ming) the world”.

Prof. Dr. J. Rod Franklin

Former CEO Prof. Dr. J. Rod Franklin is decan of the KLU University in Hamburg, Germany and teaches young students data analysis, innovation and critical thinking. He finished his studies at Stanford and Harvard University and travels the world to speak about “future Internet”.

Yusuf Zein

Yusuf was born in Lattakia, Syria as the son of an optician and a mother, who had graduated at the departmend of arabic literature. He spent a life like everybody else in syria. He went to school and met with friends on the beach. In 2013 he started studying electrical and electronic engineering in Cyprus on a private university. This is where he lived, when he decided to leave.